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Lysander Spooner: Whenever the natural law is sufficiently certain to all men's minds to justify its being enacted, it is sufficiently…

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Whenever the natural law is sufficiently certain to all men's minds to justify its being enacted, it is sufficiently certain to need no enactment.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that if natural law is clear, it does not need formal enactment.

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